I shuddered as the man grew colloquial-andwith familiar speech of another day.

Very careful, prudent, precise persons are seldom entertaining in familiar speech.

Everything has its due season, familiar speech and formal speech.

Mr. Calton, construing her silence and averted head into some resentment of his familiar speech, continued hurriedly:-

Peyton ignored the now familiar speech.

When the traitor reached the house, Savard recognised him for a friend, and entertained him with familiar speech.

It was a strangely familiar speech.

Having delivered this Parthian compliment in an oratorical passage through the doorway, the captain descended, outside, into familiar speech.

Barely he knew the cowering form that hid its dreadful punishment; then he springs to accost it in familiar speech:

He did say, adopting familiar speech to suit the theme, You know, ladies, we English come of a rough stock.

At sound of the familiar speech, the dog went forward, wagging his tail violently, as if he recognised an old acquaintance.

I'm afraid you went hungry sometimes. Immediately he marvelled at his familiar speech, but she did not seem to resent it.

The tenth chapter, "Between gentlemen and a servant; wherein they talk of going to supper, and familiar speech late in the evening."

Had the sergeant gone alone and called in familiar speech, "Come awa' oot, Bobby!" he would probably have run to the man.

But in iambic verse, which reproduces, as far as may be, familiar speech, the most appropriate words are those which are found even in prose.

Save such familiar speeches for those who appreciate them.